The Diversity Of Worldviews Among Young Adults

Part I: Defining the Motive, Methods, and Material. Chapter 1. Introduction.- Chapter 2. Moving Beyond Dysfunctional Categories and Quasi-Objects. Towards a New Methodology.- Chapter 3. Young Adults as a Social Category. A Critical Assessment.- Part II: The Universals and Variance in Subjective Worldviews - Developing a Ground-Up Model. Chapter 4. A Relational Analysis of Subjective Worldviews - Different Ways of Looking at The Data.- Chapter 5. Religious Outliers and Ultra-Subjective Outlooks. The Case of 'Idiosyncratic' and 'Divided' Worldviews.- Chapter 6. "Who Relates to The Divine as Feminine?" - The Global Consensus of the Y-Generation.- Chapter 7. The Global Variation of Non-Religious Worldviews.- Chapter 8. Gendered Views - Male and Female Worldview Prototypes in the YARG Data.- Chapter 9. "Who Is Looking for The True Doctrine?" - Certainty Versus Uncertainty and the Fundamentalist and the Liquid Worldviews.- Part III: Thematic Chapters. Chapter 10. The Self-Transcendence vs. Self-Enhancement Dimension of Human Values. Religiosity and Volunteering in YARG Case Studies.- Chapter 11. The Open and the Closed Mind, or, the Rhetoric of Choice and Equality vs. Conservation and Religious Tradition.- Chapter 12. Contexts of Plurality and Uniformity - A Comparative Study of Subjective Life-World Orientations in India, China, Finland, and the USA.- Chapter 13. Social Capital and Lack Thereof - Discrimination and Subjective Wellbeing Among University Students.- Chapter 14. The Reflections and Effects of Discrimination in The Religious Subjectivities and Value Profiles Among Muslim Students in Israel and Turkey - A Comparative Analysis.- Chapter 15. The God and Gods of the 'Post-Socialist' Generation. 'Religious Resurgence' vs. Personal Life Worlds in Russia and Poland.- Part IV: Conclusions. Chapter 16. A Transnational View of the Life-Worlds of Young Adults.- Chapter 17. On Method, Concepts, and Results in Reference to Broader Academic Perspectives.

Dr. Peter Nynäs is Professor of Comparative Religion at Åbo Akademi Uni., head of department, and the director of the CoER Young Adults and Religion in a Global Perspective (2015-18). He directed the preceding CoER Post-Secular Culture and a Changing Religious Landscape in Finland (2010-14) and several other projects funded by Academy of Finland the ÅAU Foundation and other sources. He is the co-editor of On the Outskirts of "the Church": Diversities, Fluidities and New Spaces of Religion in Finland (with R. Illman and T. Martikainen, LIT-Verlag, 2015) and Religion, Gender and Sexuality in Everyday Life (with A. Yip, Ashgate 2012). His main research interests are religious change, psychology of religion, religion, sexuality and gender, religion and space, and methodology in the study of religion. He is also Honorary Research Fellow at Mary Seacole Research Centre, Faculty of Health & Life Sciences at De Montfort University (UK).
Ariela Keysar, Ph.D., is Senior Fellow at the Public Values and Law Program and was the Associate Director of the Institute for the Study of Secularism in Society and Culture at Trinity College, Hartford, Connecticut. A demographer, she specializes in survey methodology. She is co-principal investigator, The Class of 1995/5755: The Longitudinal Study of Young American and Canadian Jews, 1995-2019; and U.S. principal investigator, Young Adults and Religion in a Global Perspective, YARG, 2015-2018. She was co-principal investigator of the Demographic Survey of American Jewish College Students 2014, the ARIS 2013 National College Student Survey, and the American Religious Identification Survey 2008.
Janne Kontala, PhD, worked as a researcher in Turku, Finland in the Department Study of Religions at Åbo Akademi University Centre of Excellence in Research: Young Adults and Religion in a Global Perspective Project (2015-2018). He specializes in the field of studies of secularism and is the author of Emerging Non-religious